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Book design: David Monyer
Cover photo: Frank Solano
Blurb: “Tracing the history of Black sacred music and its relationship to social change, Wyatt Walker observes, ... if you listen to what Black people are singing religiously, it will provide a clue as to what is happening to them sociologically." For students of Black history and music, Walker presents a detailed study tracing the musical expressions of the Black religious tradition from its ancestral roots in Africa through its development in the "invisible church" of the slave society to its influence upon the Black religious experience today.
Noting the important contribution Spirituals have made to American music, he challenges the Black church of the future to preserve this rich musical resource so that Black sacred music will become one of the gifts of Black people to the church universal both here and hereafter.
Wyatt Tee Walker is Resident Minister of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, New York City. The recipient of over one hundred and fifty awards for excellence in the field of human relations, he is the author of The Black Church Looks at the Bicentennial. Walker graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Union University with a B.S. degree in chemistry and physics. He holds an M.Div. degree from Virginia Union University Graduate School of Religion, a D.Min. degree in Black church studies from Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer, and was awarded an honorary L.H.D. from Virginia Union University.”